Fasting - Clearer Perspective

In fasting you suppress the flesh and you raise up the
spirit. Ok? If you’re fasting to find favor, if you’re fasting just to get an
answer to prayer… like some people say, “Man, I’ve been fasting and fasting and
God still didn’t heal them.” It breaks my heart that we have that mentality;
that we even teach that mentality in the church. God is not healing your loved
one because you fasted for two weeks. He’s healing your loved one because He
sent Jesus Christ, crucified Him and raised Him from the dead. You follow me?
Fasting two weeks when your loved one is sick is so that you can get a
clearer perspective of the sickness versus the finished work of Christ and rise
in the things of the spirit so you can see the situation through Christ and
minister the proper authority necessary. It’s for you. You’re fasting so that
you get a clearer view. So you get a breakthrough in your own understanding
of the situation because when you look at your loved one the sentiments are
rampant. When you look at your loved one the empathy and emotions are rampant.
When you look at your loved one the flesh is screaming. Fears are screaming. Anxieties
are screaming. Just self desire to see them whole and all of that stuff are
just, “AAAHH!” Fasting puts you in a proper perspective to where you can see it
properly and it pushes all those human things that we think are normal and
mostly are very unhealthy.1